The Journalist

Sep 23, 1967

3h 46m

★ 5.4

Overview

A successful young journalist goes to a small industrial city in order to understand the written complaints of a certain girl. When he met the author of the letters and the girl whom she had slandered, he didn't immediately understand the complexity of the situation and the measure of responsibility to those whom he was obliged to protect...

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Gorky Film Studios

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Cast

Shura Okayomova

Galina Polskikh

Yuri Alyabyev

Yuri Vasilyev

Varvara Anikina

Nadezhda Fedosova

Aleksandr Reutov

Sergey Nikonenko

Olga Panina

Tamara Makarova

Alexei Kolesnikov

Sergei Gerasimov

Nikolai Rustamovich

Yusup Daniyalov

Pavel Pustovoytov

Ivan Lapikov

Yevgeni Sergeyevich

Vasiliy Shukshin

Gena

Valeri Malyshev

Kuzmenkov

Yuriy Kuzmenkov

Editorial Staff

Vadim Zakharchenko

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